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This brief survey of Western civilization (based on the best-selling The Western Heritage, Seventh Edition), provides an exceptionally balanced survey of the political, social, and cultural development of Western civilizationits strengths and weaknesses, and the controversies surrounding it. This brief edition condenses the central narrativewithout compromising on vocabulary or conceptual levelto make it more fully accessible to today's students, and to allow instructors greater opportunity to supplement the course with extensive outside readings, if desired. The document CD-ROM is bound into the text.

Part 1 The Foundations of Western Civilization in the Ancient World

The Birth of Civilization

1

(20)

The Rise of Greek Civilization

21

(18)

Classical and Hellenistic Greece

39

(21)

Rome: From Republic to Empire

60

(20)

The Roman Empire

80

(26)

Part 2 The Middle Ages, 476-1300

The Early Middle Ages (476-1000): The Birth of Europe

106

(21)

The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000-1300)